Opinion: Catching the tail end of BBC Sunday politics there appeared to be a party political broadcast for Ukip being aired as part of the show.

The two candidates Paul Nuttall and Suzanne Evans were given a free ride; a chance to promote themselves and try to pull in new supporters as the show's host Andrew Neil allowed them challenge free air-time.

There are other candidates but presumably these two are the choice of the BBC?

Ukip's leadership election is underway after a farcical summer.

In the Summer the party elected Diane James as new party leader after long-time leader Nigel Farage quit. Farage said he was giving up on politics following his successful BRexit campaign.

James quit before she was officially installed as new leader and Farage was back as interim party leader.

What followed was pure political farce.

Front runner in the new race Steven Woolfe was involved in a brawl in the European parliament; an incident called "handbags at dawn" by the other man involved Mike Hookem MEP.

It looked for a time as if Woolfe was seriously injured but he made a full recovery.

Steven Woolfe, MEP, however spent three nights in hospital before he quit the party saying Ukip was in a "death spiral."

Ironically most of Ukips politicians are Members of the European Parliament and not MPs.

Over many years they have failed to win seats in our parliament apart from successful elections by Tory MPs who defected to Ukip.

The party was set up to push for the UK to have a vote on UK EU membership and the country leave the European Union.

When or should that be if the UK leave the EU Ukips MEPs will be out of a job but they have happily ridden the EU gravy train they so often condemn, and will do so until the bitter end:

Farage has busied himself supporting Donald Trump on his Presidential campaign in the USA and is now touted by some as something he is not.

Nigel Farage like Donald Trump wowed the working classes with spin, lies and hyperbole.

Farage was a Conservative until he quit over EU disagreement; a former investment banker ironically married to a German woman he is part of the establishment that he sometimes derides. He too cosies up to Rupert Murdoch a man who some say "owns the news."

But Ukip have their sights set on traditional Labour voters and if people fall for right-wing spin that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party does not represent them they could win in future elections.

Nuttall and Evans were allowed a free ride Sunday to woo potential new voters appealing to Labour voters. Labour MPs are rarely if ever allowed such a free ride by Neil. Sunday the two Ukip candidates voiced various attacks on Corbyn but were never challenged.

But they do not appeal to this long-time Labour voter. Flip-flop voters and those who opt not to take part in elections will allow political extremists to gain power.

I see Ukip for what they are.

​A right-wing political party struggling to survive Brexit, opting to reinvent the party, looking to pull in the popular vote and gain power but firmly occupying the right-wing of politics.

If heaven forbid Ukip were to become the official opposition to the Tories the UK would truly be a one Party state.

Their money grabbing record in the EU parliament highlights a self-serving political party with greed at its heart.

The labour party need to quit in-fighting and win elections.

Sadly too many voters are persuaded how to vote by shows such as BBCSP and publications like The Sun and The Mail.

"The party's National Executive Committee opened nominations for the election on 17 October; nominations closed at midday on 31 October. The candidates will take part in hustings in early November before ballots are dispatched on 11 November, with the new leader being announced on 28 November." Wikipedia

But Nuttall or Evans will change nothing. Ukip firmly occupies the right-wing of politics who they elect as leader may just affect how far-right they go.

Note: Suzanne Evans has this as her pinned tweet on Twitter from late October "WATCH my @ukip leadership launch on #Marr, outlining my priorities for our country, our party and our members." Seems BBC Sunday politics has a long record of promoting Ukip or at least a few of its candidates.

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